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The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities: mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels.
But such agreements do not apply to a court-run bankruptcy process; authorities everywhere would move to protect local creditors and taxpayers by seizing assets in their jurisdiction.
And the third is to “take back control,” by leaving the single market, customs union, and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
In a medium that does not map onto political borders, it is impossible to manage risks successfully from just one jurisdiction.
Complicating matters further, the systems affected by today’s crises extend well beyond any one regulatory body’s jurisdiction.
It is better to tax firms lightly and keep them in your jurisdiction than it is to forego that revenue entirely.
Or, rather than transferring personnel and disrupting supply chains, they may find a way to register profits in a lower-tax jurisdiction – typically by moving some head office functions there.
The reason is simple: decisions in this area have been removed from the jurisdiction of individual nations, thus making them more difficult to influence.
Because Syria is not a party to the ICC, the only way to give the tribunal jurisdiction is through the Security Council’s use of its enforcement authority to refer the situation of atrocity crimes in Syria, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, to the Court.
The Security Council has the power to tailor the referral and to limit to some extent the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute.
Mollifying Russia and China might require providing some escape hatch, which Assad and regime officials could use before the full weight of the Court’s jurisdiction comes thundering down on them.
Such officials would have to demonstrate indefinitely their complete withdrawal from political and military power in Syria in order to qualify for continued omission from the Court’s jurisdiction.
Rebel leaders found responsible for atrocity crimes also would have to fall within the jurisdiction of the Court to conduct fair and comprehensive investigations of all egregious criminal actions against civilians and even soldiers.
These rules do for international trade what domestic commercial codes do for contracts and transactions between parties within a given jurisdiction.
The US strongly resisted the jurisdiction of the ICC, but American abuses at Abu Ghraib show why the US, should be subject to international law.
The global agenda began to be dominated by novel initiatives for the advancement of international justice and for the protection of human rights: international criminal courts, new forms of universal jurisdiction, humanitarian intervention.
The Attorney General’s Office has even been occupying itself with a ludicrous retrospective analysis of the decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from the jurisdiction of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to that of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The fact that everyone within a given country or jurisdiction uses the same currency is precisely what gives money its value.
In the aftermath, then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan created an international commission to recommend ways that humanitarian intervention could be reconciled with Article 2.7 of the UN Charter, which upholds member states’ domestic jurisdiction.
The ICC, with jurisdiction over atrocities committed in 122 member states, was established to try cases referred to it by state parties or the Security Council (even though three permanent members – the United States, Russia, and China – have not ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute, which places parties under ICC jurisdiction).
The court has jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity that occurred on member states’ territory or that were committed by their citizens.
Even if a prosecutor were inclined to do so, the ICC’s jurisdiction is complementary to national jurisdictions: it can investigate only if a national government is unable or unwilling to do so.
There is also friction between national supervisors, who prefer domestic mergers, and supranational supervisors, who prefer cross-border mergers within their jurisdiction (the eurozone, in the European Central Bank’s case).
Taxes are under the jurisdiction of national and local governments, which jealously guard their tax prerogatives.
Human rights activists have increasingly sought friendly foreign courts, willing to invoke universal jurisdiction over so-called crimes "of international concern."
It would have jurisdiction over the crimes that are spelled out in the ICC’s statute, and it would operate in accordance with the ICC’s procedures.
The ICC itself does not have jurisdiction over Syria, because the country is not a party to the treaty that established and governs the Court.
At the same time, the program’s documentation explicitly nullifies the agreement if the area under its jurisdiction becomes slated for oil exploitation or mining.
Attempts by the US to exert extra-territorial jurisdiction including the attempt to ban British businessmen from visiting Cuba, incite European resentment.
Ultimately, the debate over international versus national jurisdiction reflects a dichotomy that is no longer apt in contemporary political conditions, for it obscures the fact that international law is increasingly embedded within domestic law.
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